Grenville Completes Investment in APO Group Inc.

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 20, 2014) - Grenville Strategic Royalty Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GRC) ("Grenville") is pleased to announce that it has contracted for a gross sales royalty from APO Group Inc. ("APO Group") in exchange for an advance of $1,000,000 with an option, if agreed upon by both companies, to advance an additional $1,000,000. In exchange for this advance, Grenville will receive a royalty based on APO Group's gross revenue within Grenville's average royalty rate of between 1% and 4%.

APO Group, with the Abaca Solution and SmartBOOK service offerings, is a privately-held, Canmore, Alberta based provider of outsourced accounting services to small-to-medium sized accounting firms in North America. APO Group provides clients with standardized tax, bookkeeping and general accounting utilizing North American GAAP and IFRS qualified CPAs based in the Phillipines. APO Group was established in 2006 and today has more than 30 staff based in Canmore, Alberta and Bacolod City, Philippines.

"The team at Grenville understood our growth strategy and business plans. Partnering with them will allow us to accelerate our expansion strategy and accelerate the introduction of innovative new services to our growing customer base," stated Russ Neilson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of APO Group.

"APO and the Abaca business offering is a prime example of a management team that operates using the full benefit of Canadian skills with offshore economies of scale," noted William (Bill) R. Tharp, President and Chief Executive Officer of Grenville. "Russ and his team are another solid, uncorrelated addition to the Grenville portfolio."

APO Group represents Grenville's 21st investment since its inception in July, 2013. To date, Grenville has completed approximately $21.86 million in royalty financings across Canada and the US.

About APO Group

Since 2006, APO Group has been a leading provider of Accounting Process Outsourcing (APO) to Canadian accounting firms. Firms are able to leverage cloud-enabled and hosted services, paired with a pool of experienced and qualified CPAs. APO Group helps accountants achieve the impossible, Work/Life balance can be a reality. Today, APO Group has more than 30 staff based in Canmore, Alberta and Bacolod City, Philippines. For more information visit www.abacasolutions.com

About Grenville

Grenville is a Toronto-based company that was formed to provide royalty-based finance solutions by acquiring revenue streams generated by growing industrial and technology businesses. Grenville has identified a large and underserviced finance market for companies generating up to $50 million in revenue, many of which are well managed and generating improving cash flow, but face difficult financing hurdles from traditional debt and equity markets. The non-dilutive royalty financing structure offered by Grenville can bridge the financing needs of these companies until traditional debt or equity is available to them on more attractive commercial terms. The application of Grenville's royalty financing structure into sectors not traditionally serviced by royalty companies represents a new and innovative financing model - Capital Simplified - that has already attracted a considerable number of opportunities with attractive potential returns.

Forward-Looking Information and Statements

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By identifying such information and statements in this manner, Grenville is alerting the reader that such information and statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Grenville to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements. An investment in securities of Grenville is speculative and subject to a number of risks including, without limitation, risks relating to: the need for additional financing; the relative speculative and illiquid nature of an investment in Grenville; Grenville's lack of operating history; Grenville's ability to generate sufficient revenues; Grenville's ability to manage future growth; the limited diversification in Grenville's existing investments; dependence on the operations, assets and financial health of investee companies; limited ability to exercise control or direction over investee companies; potential defaults by investee companies and the unsecured nature of Grenville's investments; Grenville's ability to enforce on any default by an investee company; competition with other investment entities; tax matters; Grenville's ability to pay dividends in the future and the timing and amount of those dividends; reliance on key personnel, particularly Grenville's founders; dilution of shareholders' interest through future financings; and general economic and political conditions. Although Grenville has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information and statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.

In connection with the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this document, Grenville has made certain assumptions. Assumptions about the performance of the Canadian and U.S. economies over the next 24 months and how that will affect Grenville's business and its ability to identify and close new opportunities with new investees are material factors that Grenville considered when setting its strategic priorities and objectives, and its outlook for its business. Key assumptions include, but are not limited to: assumptions that the Canadian and U.S. economies will continue to grow moderately over the next 12 to 24 months; that interest rates will not increase dramatically over the next 12 to 24 months; that Grenville's existing investees will continue to make royalty payments to Grenville as and when required; that the businesses of Grenville's investees will not experience material negative results; that Grenville will continue to grow its portfolio in a manner similar to what has already been established; that tax rates and tax laws will not change significantly in Canada and the U.S.; that more small to medium private and public companies will continue to require access to alternative sources of capital; and that Grenville will have the ability to raise required equity and/or debt financing on acceptable terms. Grenville has also assumed that access to the capital markets will remain relatively stable, that the capital markets will perform with normal levels of volatility and that the Canadian dollar will not have a high amount of volatility relative to the U.S. dollar. In determining expectations for economic growth, Grenville primarily considers historical economic data provided by the Canadian and U.S. governments and their agencies.

Although Grenville believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, the forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements.

For additional information with respect to these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, please refer to the "Risk Factors" section of Grenville's annual information form dated April 21, 2014 and the other public filings of Grenville available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking information contained in this press release is made as of the date hereof, and Grenville does not undertake to update any forward-looking information that is contained or referenced herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. All subsequent written and oral forward looking information and statements attributable to Grenville or persons acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by this notice.

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